This review summarizes recent advances in the area of tribology based on the outcome of a
Lorentz Center workshop surveying various physical, chemical and mechanical phenomena …

The physics of sliding friction is gaining impulse from nanoscale and mesoscale
experiments, simulations, and theoretical modeling. This Colloquium reviews some recent …

Frictional processes entail the rupture, of the ensemble of discrete contacts defining a
frictional interface,. There are a variety of views on how best to describe the onset of dry …

Modern geophysics highlights that the slip behaviour response of faults is variable in space
and time and can result in slow or fast ruptures. However, the origin of this variation of the …

Contact problems are central to Solid Mechanics, because contact is the principal method of
applying loads to a deformable body and the resulting stress concentration is often the most …

Earthquakes occur in clusters or sequences that arise from complex triggering mechanisms,
but direct measurement of the slow subsurface slip responsible for delayed triggering is …

The onset of frictional instabilities, eg, earthquakes nucleation, is intimately related to
velocity‐weakening friction, in which the frictional resistance of interfaces decreases with …

When a frictional interface is subject to a localized shear load, it is often (experimentally)
observed that local slip events propagate until they arrest naturally before reaching the edge …

We study rupture fronts propagating along the interface separating two bodies at the onset of
frictional motion via high-temporal-resolution measurements of the real contact area and …

We investigate the behavior of simulated slow slip events using a rate and state friction
model that is steady state velocity weakening at low slip speeds but velocity strengthening at …